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Palermo has held its corner of Los Feliz, and it knows exactly what kind of night it's built for.

Locanda Veneta has been doing the same thing, and that's precisely the point.

Lincoln Heights doesn't get nearly enough credit as a dining neighborhood, and Trattoria Daly — a Latinx-owned Italian kitchen on Daly Street — is a useful corrective to the idea that Italian food in L.A.

Maccheroni Republic occupies a room on South Broadway in downtown Los Angeles that takes the trattoria idea seriously: tin ceilings, tiled walls, tall mirrors, the kind of interior that doesn't need a concept because it already has a cha…

Bestia arrived in the Arts District more than a decade ago and is widely credited with reorienting what Los Angeles expected from Italian cooking — not red-sauce nostalgia, not minimalist modernism, but something more aggressive and ingr…